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Dr Tsang presents in Italy
Congratulations to Dr Catherine Tsang, who was invited to chair session 1 on “Cocoa Polyphenols and Health” and present her research on the “Effect of Cocoa Polyphenols on Glucocorticoids and markers of Stress” at the International Society of Cocoa and Chocolate in Health and Medicine 3rd International Congress from the 5-6th December 2019 in Modica,…
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Claire presents RIF project findings in Berlin
Congratulations to Lecturer in Nutrition and Health, Dr Claire Blennerhassett who visited Berlin earlier this year to present the findings of a RIF project in collaboration with Dr Michael Richards and Dr Fiona Hallet, entitled ‘Parents perceptions of the challenges and barriers to implementing a parent led intervention for food selectivity in children with Autism’. As a…
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Euromed Collaboration
Congratulations to Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition and Health, Dr Catherine Tsang, who has established a new collaboration with Euromed – an International nutraceutical company based in Barcelona. Euromed are providing their food extracts of pomegranate for research projects at Edge Hill University, looking at the potential anti-adipogenic (I.e. anti obesity) effects of pomegranate polyphenols in…
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Life with a child with complex needs
My name is Jill and I’m mum to Noah who is 8 years old. He was born with a rare type of interstitial lung disease and following lots of investigations, Noah had a tracheostomy and was put on a 24/7 ventilator with oxygen. He is now only on the ventilator when he is asleep or…
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Carer vs Caring or a Caring Carer?
I am a non-professional carer for my daughter, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Do you know that the dictionary definition of the word ‘caring’ when used as an adjective is: “feeling or showing care and compassion?” It’s also used by health and social professionals to describe a person or function. For example, nursing…
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Supporting young people at risk of violent crime or criminal exploitation
Sally-Ann Ashton is a Lecturer in the Psychosocial Analysis of Offending Behaviour and is involved with a project regionally to identify and support young people who are involved with or at risk of violent crime or criminal exploitation. Sally-Ann was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Travel Fellowship to research US gang interventions in July and…
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Nutrition futures 2019
Congratulations to Edge Hill University Nutrition student, Lesley, who presented her preliminary findings from her nutrition society funded project at nutrition futures event earlier this month. Lesley interviewed nine farmers in total; six in South West England and three from the Northwest to explore their farming practices (past, present and future plans) in relation to food sustainability.
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Children Coming to Hospital – what children want health professionals to know about coming to hospital for a procedure
In hospital, children may feel small, scared, worried or overwhelmed. The way health professionals engage with them makes a massive difference. We worked with children and young people to create the ‘Children Coming to Hospital’ resource which includes a short animation for health professionals with practical advice about how to communicate with children coming to…
